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The cultural friction is not a real issue except for the extreme right. The real issues are the same as everywhere: standard of living is going down for younger people while wealth is being concentrated in fewer individuals. Those wealthy individuals are the ones who benefit from promoting this immigration/cultural friction theory.

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It is a real issue, because it's human nature. Groups don't like outsiders.

Pretending that isn't human nature is why anti-immigrant parties keep attracting surprising support in elections.

And that tension shouldn't be swept under the rug and ignored via the 'it's just the far right' excuse.

It's a thing. It needs to be addressed. Which doesn't necessarily mean implementing anti-immigrant policies, but does at least mean some form of address (e.g. government support for enculturation, advertising benefits of immigration, etc).

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